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Michel Guégan: ''The European Charter of Local Self-Government takes precedence over Belgian national legislation''

Michel Guégan: ''The European Charter of Local Self-Government takes precedence over Belgian national legislation''
[02/12/2008]

''The European Charter of Local Self-Government is our unique reference which has been guiding our work until now. Belgium signed and ratified it, this text takes precedence in this country over its national legislation'' stressed Michel Guégan (France), presenting the report prepared together with Dobrica Milovanovic (Serbia) on the situation of local democracy in Belgium. ''It is not by chance that Belgium is one of the founding states of the Council of Europe, because it shares the same values of this organisation and it has been one of its most active member states for more than 50 years. It is in the spirit of this commitment that I wish for us to be working together to improve Belgian local democracy, where it is necessary'', he concluded.
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